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“Nothing about this storm is ideal, and Election Day won’t be ideal but we’re doing everything to make voting accessible to registered New Jerseyans if you want to vote,” Ernie Landante, spokesman for the lieutenant governor’s office, said on Monday.

About 105 polling places out of thousands — down from 500 that were identified this weekend — remained without power by Monday afternoon, Landante, whose office oversees the election office, said. County officials in affected areas are working to consolidate polling places and locate generators for those that still lack power.

New Jersey is also advancing with a provision Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno approved Sunday that allows displaced voters to submit their absentee ballots by e-mail or fax.

“We’ve extended this because of these extraordinary circumstances,” Landante said. “We want to minimize any disfranchisement and make voting as accessible as possible.”

In New York — which Sandy also battered last week — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday issued an executive order to allow voters in the counties affected by the storm — Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester and New York City — to cast provisional ballots for the presidential race. But the order would not allow them vote in Congressional races.

“New York State is firmly committed to holding a fair and accessible general election and maximizing voter participation in this election,” Cuomo wrote in his order.

Neither New York or New Jersey is expected to be terribly competitive on the presidential level tomorrow — President Barack Obama is heavily favored to win both of them.

But while many have assumed the storm-related problems could drive down Obama’s popular vote totals in those places, Mitt Romney might also lose a few votes because places like New Jersey’s Monmouth and Ocean counties are deep red, having gone overwhelmingly for John McCain in 2008.

In New Jersey, most of the congressional candidates lead by large margins.

Officials in Maryland and Delaware report that they were able to get all of their voting locations back online for the big day. And Pennsylvania officials report eight polling places are still without power, including six in the electorally important Philadelphia suburbs — one in Montgomery County and five in Bucks County. That number is down significantly from last week, the secretary of state’s office said Monday, when 250 to 300 polling places lacked power.

Of the eight polling places, five already have generators on site. The state is working to supply others before tomorrow, said secretary of state spokesman Matthew Keeler.

New Jersey elections are conducted by local officials in the 566 municipalities comprising 21 counties across the state. A handful of towns are so badly damaged that officials are unable to open any polling places within their boundaries.

Officials in some of the most-flooded areas are getting creative about making sure voters know where to go on Election Day.

In Hudson County, 12 districts in badly flooded Jersey City and Hoboken were rendered inaccessible due to Sandy, said Michael Harper, clerk of the Hudson County Board of Elections.

“The Jersey City police are helping us out and going through neighborhoods and announcing it through the loud speaker, [there’s] signage on all the old buildings directing [the voters] to the new ones,” said Harper. “Given the time frame it’s not what we’d normally do, but it’s not a normal situation.”